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Valentines 2025
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It was so fun to make cards for Valentine’s Day! I had purchased dies last year but didn’t use them. I can’t decide which I like the best, so leave a comment telling us of your favorite. This first one was for my grandchildren showing a little teddy bear stacking balloons on top of each other to say ‘I LOVE YOU’. The balloons are die cut from a glossy card stock but the picture didn’t pick up the shine. The die cut out all the hearts in one cut, so I used different colored papers and then glued them individually on the white layer that I embossed with a fun heart embossing folder. With 4 cards to make it was great to have different colors to mix and match.
For the inside I used our spiral die and glued one end on each side so it opened up with a flash of hearts. The children love an interactive card!
- Kokorosa Die for teddy bear and balloons
- Sunshine Wishes Dies for the layered heart on the left of the inside
- Lots of Heart Stampin’ Up! set for the “my heart smiles just thinking about you”
- Think Happy Stampin’ Up! for the little smiles inside the heart
- Spiral BigZ die
- The embossing folder is one of the mini folders from Stampin’ Up! so you run it through twice
Next, I used the same embossing folder for a layer and then die cut interconnected hearts and layered them on a piece of designer series paper.
- Kokorosa Die for interconnected hearts connected to side strips
- Stampin’ Up! Love & Happiness stamp set for the tiny Happy Valentine’s Day
- Stampin’ Up! Heartfelt Stamp Set for the “Roses Are Red…..So Lucky” and the heart in bottom corner
As many as you made, I’ll bet you had Paul’s help.
I did, Sal, which made it more efficient and certainly more fun!
Third for the day is a card with a blue background for a friend (you know who you are) who loves blue!
- Kokorosa Die for the flurry of hearts coming out of the envelope
- Stampin’ Up! envelope maker using 1/2 of smallest measurements
- Stampin’ Up! Heartfelt Stamp Set for the “Roses Are Red…..So Lucky” and the heart in bottom corner
The inside bottom heart is stamped but it looks so clear in the picture that it looks like an additional die cut. Paul used the Stampin’ Up! envelope maker to make the little white envelope.
Last but not least is another set of interconnected hearts on a sponged background for a rainbow look. For this construction, there are the hearts die cut in purple, then a layer of white die cut for placement of the purple and then a smaller layer of white card stock sponged to go behind those two layers.
- Kokorosa Die with the interconnected hearts
- Stampin’ Up! Heartfelt Stamp Set for the “Roses Are Red…..So Lucky” and the heart in bottom corner
That is a nice variety of purple, blue, pink and white bases.
Purposeful! Doing a whole set of cards just alike can be very productive, but it can get boring if you don’t have an assembly line for each step of the card.
And when have you had an assembly line? I don’t think two people count as a “line”.
Hmmmm…… maybe that is something I should do in classes. NOT!
Thank you for giving me some time today. Hopefully you have been inspired, even to just see some nice wording you can stamp on anniversary cards or birthday cards or ……
SAL, Such A Lot of Valentines
Karen
Quotation of the day:
“Sometimes the greatest gift you can give someone is simply to include them.”
Under The Sea Thank You
When you see something you like, do you analyze and over analyze and then find out it is gone when you go back to get it? That would be me- usually. This time I actually ordered from an ad that popped up on Facebook and I am delighted with this die I purchased through inloveartshop.com. Take a look see:
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You are looking at a base of Pretty Peacock, with a die cut fancy layer of Just Jade and cut outs from a sea themed 6 X 6 retired DSP (designer series paper) from Stampin’ Up! and embellishments of Sea Glass. The right front side has a strip of the DSP with a greeting from the Veritcal Greetings Stampin’ Up! set. The inside left has a strip of the DSP and a stamp from Happy Hedgehogs. The right side uses the Stampin’ Up! Friends are Like Seashells stamp set with the Seaside Seashells Die and hybrid Embossing Folder. The die does the cutting as the folder embosses in one run through the Big Shot. I cut an extra shell and stamped a greeting on it, adhering it amongst the other shells.
Let’s take another look at the Kokorosa die. It comes with all the pieces attached with little bitty bits of the metal. You need one of the little metal cutters to cut them apart – or a husband like my Paul who cut them apart and then used his grinder to make sure there were no sharp edges. He is so handy and can fix just about anything! Thanks, Paul.
BUT- before you cut the dies apart you want to run your cardstock through to cut out all the pieces. There are layering pieces and inside pieces; those little layering pieces give you perfect placement for the inside pieces.
I am scratching my head – that didn’t make sense.
Okay, Sal, let’s try some pictures.
This is the die set after Paul so carefully removed the metal connecting pieces.
I die cut it with the Just Jade before Paul cut the dies apart and I had the outer background piece that you see in the top picture and then lots of puzzle pieces-
-a piece for each of the outside borders, and then a piece for each inside die cut.
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You could do puzzle piecing and use a different color for the border pieces and then die cut your inside pieces from another color, but I just layered the main background die cut piece on the base of Pretty Peacock and then die cut different scenes from the DSP. What saved me much fiddling, in getting the inside DSP pieces perfectly lined up, was placing the border pieces in the cut out section and then adhering the DSP inside the border. I didn’t even need to glue the border pieces temporarily; the main background cutout kept the border in place, then I removed the border and had a perfectly aligned piece of DSP. I saved those border pieces to use each time I make a card with these dies.
Notice – look back at the first picture – the main background piece in Just Jade fits nicely top to bottom but does not go equally to the edges left to right. In the future I would adhere the background piece close to the left side and either cut off the right side front base, or do as I did here but with a larger strip of DSP for the vertical greeting.
Now that I have taken my Stampin’ Up! blinders off and have allowed myself to use other companies products, it is like a whole new world of crafting.
Are you getting rid of all your Stampin’ Up! products?
No, indeed, Sal! Stampin’ Up! has some amazing products like what I have used on this card, but I am purging to eliminate stamps that I don’t see me using in the future.
Thank you to everyone who has been purchasing items from my stamp stash. Check out the Bake Sale tab here on the blog to see what is left. I listed 67 sets on Saturday and have sold over half of them. Several are still pending payment so I won’t remove them from the BAKE SALE until I receive payment. We call that NIL in the online shopping world. NIL means Next In Line so if someone doesn’t pay the NIL person gets notified. It works really well. People change their mind or find a better deal and then the NIL has a chance to purchase your set.
SAL, Smile A Little and Share A Lovely find
Karen
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